Index: plugin.jelly
===================================================================
--- plugin.jelly	(revision 668174)
+++ plugin.jelly	(working copy)
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
         </j:if>
         <maven:property var="targetjdk" name="maven.pmd.targetjdk" defaultValue="${defaultTargetJdk}"/>
         <pmd 
+          minimumPriority="${maven.pmd.minimumpriority}"
           rulesetfiles="${maven.pmd.rulesetfiles}"
           failonerror="${maven.pmd.failonerror}"
           failOnRuleViolation="${maven.pmd.failonruleviolation}"
@@ -160,7 +161,6 @@
                   excludes="${maven.pmd.excludes}"/>
             </j:forEach>
           </j:if>
-
         </pmd>
       </j:when>
       <j:otherwise>
Index: plugin.properties
===================================================================
--- plugin.properties	(revision 668174)
+++ plugin.properties	(working copy)
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
 maven.pmd.failonerror = false
 maven.pmd.failonruleviolation = false
 
+maven.pmd.minimumpriority=5
+
 # JDK target
 maven.pmd.targetjdk=${maven.compile.source}
 
Index: project.xml
===================================================================
--- project.xml	(revision 668174)
+++ project.xml	(working copy)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-pmd-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven PMD Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.10</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.11</currentVersion>
   <description>The Maven PMD plugin is a plugin that wraps the PMD framework (http://pmd.sourceforge.net). PMD is a source checking framework that works by scanning Java source code and looks for potential problems like: unused local variables, empty catch blocks, unused parameters, empty 'if' statements, etc.</description>
   <shortDescription>Maven Plugin for PMD</shortDescription>
   <versions>
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>pmd</groupId>
       <artifactId>pmd</artifactId>
-      <version>3.9</version>
+      <version>4.2.2</version>
       <url>http://pmd.sourceforge.net</url>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>asm</groupId>
       <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
-      <version>3.0</version>
+      <version>3.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>backport-util-concurrent</groupId>
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>backport-util-concurrent</groupId>
       <artifactId>backport-util-concurrent</artifactId>
-      <version>3.0</version>
+      <version>3.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>jaxen</groupId>
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>jaxen</groupId>
       <artifactId>jaxen</artifactId>
-      <version>1.1-beta-9</version>
+      <version>1.1.1</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>